Friday, October 17, 2014

// Dennis Muren: Master of VFX
Academy Award winning Visual Effects Master, Dennis Muren will present and discuss five films on which he worked and one classic that inspired him. This special program will show Thursdays and Sundays, beginning on Thursday November 6 with Terminator 2: Judgment Day and ending Sunday, November 23 with Star Wars: Episode 2 - Attack of the Clones

Thursday, July 24, 2014

"Oscar®-winning visual effects supervisor Craig Barron and Oscar-winning sound designer Ben Burtt will explore the side-by-side advances in filmmaking technology and aviation at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ four-evening series “Hollywood Takes to the Air” beginning on Thursday, August 14, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood." via FIN

We are holding a rally to support legal action to help end the current subsidy race that is damaging the Visual Effects and Film industries. These subsidies are a form of corporate welfare used by Hollywood producers to game various governments against each other. These actions have led to a bidding war between governments that maximizes the amount of free taxpayer money for Hollywood productions that end up making billions of dollars. At the same time, this has unknowingly cost taxpayers billions... more on ADAPT website

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

LIFE AFTER PI is a short documentary about Rhythm & Hues Studios, the L.A. based Visual Effects company that won an Academy Award for its groundbreaking work on "Life of Pi" -- just two weeks after declaring bankruptcy. The film explores rapidly changing forces impacting the global VFX community and the Film Industry as a whole.

Friday, January 24, 2014

Alfonso Cuarón, director of the groundbreaking Sandra Bullock film "Gravity", with his son and co-writer, Jonás Cuarón. And a look at the new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, "Magritte: Mystery of the Ordinary" via Charlie Rose